tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2020 Issue Q2

Interoperability: New Federal Policies Prioritize Patient Access

Tip: Prepare now for health IT requirements or risk censure. There’s no denying that data sharing between providers helps improve delivery of care and coordination between organizations and specialists. In the past, definitions of what constituted information blocking were complicated and created confusion in the industry, but a recent rule offers practitioners new standards and clear-cut parameters. Then: Last year, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) published twin interoperability proposals to address data exchange issues in healthcare and act on provisions outlined in...

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